One solution may be to only keywords if they have a date other than the default date.
-Scott On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Matt Cutts <[email protected]> wrote: > I didn't know that I had search keywords--I never use them myself. If > I'd known, I would have deleted the shortcuts long ago. Once I > realized that this is what caused it, I immediately did > Wrench->Options->Basics->Manage and deleted the "google" keyword. But > I never knew that "QuickSearch" meant "somehow there's a hard-coded > keyword matching this prefix in your search engines dialog box." > > I agree with Evan that you don't want to ask more questions when > importing bookmarks, but personally I would prefer not to import these > QuickSearch phrases by default. I think only a tiny fraction of power > users use these phrases (I don't). > Matt > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Scott Violet <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm curious. Where did you expect to see bookmark keywords? Where did >> you look first? >> >> -Scott >> >> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Evan Martin <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Both Matt Cutts and Matt my roommate have recently been caught by >>> useless bookmark keywords. >>> Matt_1 wrote, in a list of things he didn't like about Chrome, 'If I >>> start typing "Google webmaster blog" into the Omnibox, it offers to >>> search Google for "webmaster blog"'. >>> Matt_2 asked me how timeanddate.com managed to grab all queries >>> starting with "time", thinking it was a vulnerability of some sort. >>> >>> I believe both of these were caused by importing search keywords from >>> Firefox. In at least the latter case, Matt_2 was unaware that the >>> "time" keyword even existed on his Firefox (I think it might have been >>> part how Firefox was installed on his computer?). >>> >>> In both cases, the UI for managing these keywords was hidden enough >>> that they couldn't find it. (I couldn't even find it myself when >>> Matt_2 asked me about it... the button is labeled "searches" or >>> something, which is not at all what I as looking for. I knew to >>> right-click on the omnibox but that isn't at all obvious.) >>> >>> So, for discussion: >>> 1) is importing keywords harmful? (I am pretty certain "ask the user >>> more questions when importing" *is* harmful.) >>> 2) how can we surface the fact that you can edit those keywords? >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
